President Trump has continued his attack against prominent law firms, pulling the security clearances of attorneys at New York-based Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (Paul Weiss), and restricting their employees from entering government buildings and receiving funds from federal contracts.

Trump signed the order on Friday, directing that the security clearances of Paul Weiss employees be pulled “pending a review of whether such clearances are consistent with the national interest,” terminate any contract for which the law firm was hired to perform “any service" and limit government employees from engaging with the firm’s workers while in official capacity.

He also ordered that agency officials should “refrain” from hiring Paui Weiss’s employees “absent a waiver from the head of........

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